Golf-tee packet and golf tee



Dec. 21,1926. 1,611,332 E. C. BUNNELL GOLF TEE PACKET AND GOLF TEE Filed April 13. 1926 IJWENTbRV lag; GBazzrze/l BY 1 I ATTORNEY Patented I A UNITED STATES-PATENT OFFICE; Y A EARL cgnuivimm, or srna'ironn, conNEcrie fp 4 '4 corn-TEE racxnrienncorr run. I I 4 Application at; April 13, 1926. Seria-l I Io,. ,759.

This invention relates to a golf tee packet margins of a sheet will have a tendency 'toand to a golf tee. I ward keeping each blank flat until. ready -An object of the invention is to provide for use. v I an article'to be employed by golfer t tee With the above objects in view, as well as 5 a golf ball-in'place of a built-up clay mound others which willappear as the-specification A as now commonly utilized. proceeds, the invention COIYTPI'iSBS the con- '60 A further ob ect is to provide a packet struction, arrangement, and combination of in which a number of the novel tees are parts as now to be fully. described and as placed to be removed by a golfer, one by hereafter to be specifically claimed, it being 19 one, as the tees may. be'required. understood that the; disclosure herein, is.

A further-object is to provide'atee for merely illustrative and meant in no way in golfers which will consist of .a suitable blank a limiting sense, changes in details of con-- or piece'of material adapted to'be formed to struction and arrangement of parts ,being a-shape suitable for supporting a golf ball permissible soIlcng as within the spirit of 15 above the ground in position to be conventhe invention and he scopeof the appended iently struck and .driven. claims. A W701 A further object is .to provide a packet Inthe accompanying drawing forming a for golfteesfwhich packet will consist oi part of this specification, I

- separate,flat sheets ofsuitable material, such Flg. 1'-lS a plan View of a blank or disc loraspaper', cardboard, parchment, celluloid, or for constructing the improved tee the like, conveniently joined to each other Fig. 2 is an edge view of the blank or '7 to constitute said packet, each-sheet of the disc of Fig. 1 L

packet having outlined therein areadily re- Fig. 3 is a plan .view of the tee formed to movable blank to be formed to a shape shape and ready for use;

25 adapted to rest upon the ground and-nicely", Figs 4 is an elevatio a1 view of the -tee' support a golf ball in position to be struck as when in use, a golf ball restingupon. .th and driven. m p

A further object is'tb'providearteewhichn Fig. 5 is a perspective view of sa rim;;

will consist of a'flatblank or'disc of suit- 'posed blanks or discs hayingthe featu'res Watrlali'suehflipa er, cardboard, of the blankor'disc disclosed in Fig. land parchment, celluloid, or the 'kabounded atsuitablyand detachably joined together to its outer margin by a relatively large cir- ,provide a packet;

' cumference,.at its innerimargin byia rela- Fig; 6 is a perspective view, of a packet t ivel.y small"circumference, and at its ends, consisting of suitably joined sheets each hav- '3 which areadjacent each other, byinterlocking a blank or disc removable therefrom and ing elements adapted to the purpose of seconstructed as disclosed in Fig.1; and t 00 L .curing'saidends together to provide a l 1 o l .Eig.-7 isa perspectiveView of a modified low frustro-conical body the large,'open-end form of tee. p of whichisadapted to res uponthe ground, "With respect to the drawing lodenotesi and the small, open end-of which is adapted "a preferably flat blank or disc of mat rial, toprovidea seat {or a golf ball which' is such, for example,, as, paper, ca card, to be struck and driven...-: I parchment, celluloid, or. the'like, which is A further object is to provide interlockbounded at it's 'outermargin by'a relativelying elements of unique and 'mproved struclarge circumference 11, at its inner marg n ture. x Y I. oy-a relatively small circumference 12, and, And a still. further 'object'is toprovide a at its ends by elements, denoted 13 and, 14, 100.

packet for-the tees consisting. of a plurality respectivel which are adjacent each other of fiat sheets of materialeach having a and are ad'aptedto 'be, interlocked to secure-y readily removable tee, wherein all of the the ends of-the'bla'nk together.

3 sheets of the packet will be in superimposed The b1ank'.10 .is of that construction ito relation to each other to have a tendency provide a hollow frustro-conicalv body when "7 toward keeping each sheet flat, and wherein said elements 13; and 4; are made to mtereach blank to form a tee will be situated lock, the circumference lldefinlng-the large,

" vgithinthe margins oiceach sheet so that the openend ofsaid frustroaconical body adapted to restupon the ground, and the circumference 12 defining the small, open end of said frustro-eonical bod adapted to provide a seat for a golf ba 1 A, said olf ball being adapted to fit said seat in a out the manner as disclosed in Fig. 4. The golf ball when so supported is in stable position ready to be conveniently struck and driven by a golf club.

of the tee.

The-interlocking elements 13 and may each or either contain an adhesive, as in F 1g. 7, or be constructed in some manner differentfromthose shown. .I prefer, however,

to utilize interlocking elements of the struc 'tureillustrated in Figs. 1 to-6.-

Of the element 13, numeral 15 denotes a hook member providin an upwardly opening slot 16 at the end 1 of the blank 10 and adjacent the loweriorground engagingend Of the element 14, numeral 18 denotes a hook member providing a downwardly openingslot 19 at the end 20 of the blank 10 and at the lower or'ground'engagand adapted to be positioned at the inner ace of the upper portion of the end 20 of the blank 10, so that the hook member 18,; said .upper portion of the end 20, andsaid shoul:

der 21 can cooperate to resist'compressions p per portions of the P the elements 13 and 14 to ther'provid ea tiidin to; cause the ends 1 and 20 to bver 'i haLis to say,

-' tensionlock adjacent'the ower or ground engaging end ofthe tee, and a. compression lock adjacent. the upper, or golf ball receiv-.

-, to insu ethe frusto-c'onical shape of thetee.

ing end of the tee, both adapted to cooperate,

Obviously, the tendency toward overla ping of the upper portions of the ends of t e tee causedbyitheweight of the golf; is ef- .55 in! by said-tension lock; Th

fectually prevented by the compression look, while thetendency toward spreading apart of the'lower portions of the ends of the tee e com ression ock'cooperates with the tensionloc in in caused by'said weight is efl'ectuallyprevent- .suring the set positions of the hook membe their intended fun while the tension lock likewise cooperates with the compression lock in the'set position ofithe shoulder 21 relativelyto the upper portion of .the end' 20 of the blank 10. Inother words, the compression andtension :locks coact in' the performance of ctipns.

InFig. 5 I have disclosed superimposed fiat blanks or discs 10 dotachably joined to tension and co gether to proyideapacket 22." 'lhe superimposedblanks. or discs have a tendency toward, keeping each blank or disc flat.

'In Fig. 6 I have illustrated super-imposed flat sheets 23 detachably joined together as 7 at 24 .to provide a packet 25, each sheet 23 having'a blank or disc 10 situated within the mar ins of the sheet 26 representing perfo ratid ns in each'sheet defining the o'utlirfi of each blank or disc and rendering the '71 .blank or disc readily removable from the sheet. The superimposed sheets have a tendency toward keeping eachsheetflat, and the marginal portions of'each sheet have a tendency, toward keeping each blank flat until at ready for use.

What Iclaim is:

'1. As an article of manufacture, a golf tee consist-ing of a shaped blank of material providing a hollow-frustro-conical body in- ,cludinga relativel -large, open, lower end adapted to rest upon the ground and a relative y'small, open, upper end adapted to provide a seat for a golf ball, and means securing the endsofthe blank toeach other, 9

said' means including a tension lock adjacent the low er end of said tee and a compress sion lockadjacent the up 'rendFf said tee,- for the purpose describe 2. As an article of manufacture, a golf tee Y 5 blank including an Outer circumferential margin, an inner circumferential margin,

spaced apart endswhich are adjacent each other, and means adapted to secure said ends to each other to provide'a hollow' frustroconical body including'a large end adapted to rest. upon the and and asmall' end rovidi'n'g a se-at adapted to support agolf all, said means including 8 1191151011 lock adjacentasaid large end adapted forces tomovethe lower portions of the blank ends apart, and a compression lock adjacent sa-id small end adapted to resist forces tendin to move the Ffiiei' rtionsnof the blank e11 tobverlapping ation, said ,110

article blank including an outer circumferential 1 5 margin, .an nner circumferential margin, spaced apart ends which are adjacent each other, and means" adapted to removablysee cure said ends to 111; end adapted torest upon the an asmallend rond1n"aseat tosupporta meanseompr'ising a hook member providing an upwardly opening slot atone end of" the blankand adjacent the lower end of the tee, 1 book member providing a downward] "slot-at the other end oithe blank lower end of the andadloulder upon an .ldlptod to be poem end of the blank ression locks thus cooperating to makesaid tee-stable when supporting a golf ball.

each other to provide a hollow frusto-eonicalhodyincluding-a bers, shoulder andcent said large end of the tee to resist forces adjacent saidsmall end of the tee adapted to resist forces tending to move the. upper portions of the blank ends to overlapping relaat the inner face of the upper portion ofthe opposite end of said blank, said hook'memupper portion being adapted to interengage each other in'such tion. manner as to provide a tension lock adja- Si ed at Bridgeport, inthe county of -Fai eld, and State'of Connecticut, th1s12 day. of April, A.-D. 1926'; v

.' EARL C. BUNNELL.

tending to move the lower-portions of the blank ends apart, and a compression lock 

